Eclogues
Virgil
Vergil. The Poems of Vergil. Rhoades, James, translator. London: Oxford University Press, 1921.
- Daphnis, 'twas thou bad'st yoke to Bacchus' car
- armenian tigresses, lead on the pomp
- of revellers, and with tender foliage wreathe
- the bending spear-wands. As to trees the vine
- is crown of glory, as to vines the grape,
- bulls to the herd, to fruitful fields the corn,
- so the one glory of thine own art thou.
- When the Fates took thee hence, then Pales' self,
- and even Apollo, left the country lone.